Developing Writing Skills through Literature

Authors

  • Ammar Rezaei Ph.D. student at English Department, Osmania University Hyderabad

Keywords:

Literature, Literary Text, Culture

Abstract

The present paper underscores the need and importance of literary texts for a comprehensive attainment of higher levels of language skills. It is based on the primary assumption that teaching literature or literary texts makes language acquisition more use-focused instead of form-focused. Learning literature creates many positive attitudes in learning and acquisition of English as a foreign or second language. This paper tries to touch the benefits of the inclusion of literature or literary texts in EFL curriculum at all the stages of language learning in general.

In the following section, why language teachers use literary texts in the foreign Language classroom and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts in foreign language classes are stressed and the reader will be familiar with the underlying reasons and criteria for language teachers’ using and selecting literary texts.

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01.01.2014

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Ammar Rezaei. (2014). Developing Writing Skills through Literature . Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 5(3), 16–20. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL050305

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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2014): January

Section

Research Articles

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